Building from the source

You will need the latest version of the Go programming language.

Check go is installed

which go
go version

Quick compilation

git clone https://gitlab.com/aquachain/aquachain
cd aquachain
make
./bin/aquachain version

Downloading The Source

git clone https://gitlab.com/aquachain/aquachain
cd aquachain

If you are contributing, you will want to 'fork' the main repo on github, and add your fork like so, changing your-name and patch-1 to whatever you need:

git remote add fork git@github.com:yourname/aquachain.git
git remote -v # check remotes
git checkout master
git checkout -b patch-1

When done making commits, use git push fork patch-1 and either open a pull request or ask to merge.

During development on your branch there may be many commits on the master branch. You can re-synchronize by using git pull -r origin master or git rebase -i to avoid needing Merge commits.

Compiling

In the base directory of the repository, you can run a variety of 'make' targets.

When finished compiling, they are in the ./bin directory.

Aquachain command

make

Available make targets on linux (may be outdated)

all              aquachain-nocgo  cross            install          static
all-musl         aquaminer        devtools         lint             test
all-static       aquastrat        docker-run       musl             test-musl
aquachain        clean            generate         race             usb
   

Cross Compilation

Below is how releases were* made, with Docker and xgo. Here we build only amd64 targets, Windows, Linux, OSX (darwin). Since we switched to pure go, it has been even easier. (make clean cross hash package)

xgo -out aquachain-$VERS --remote https://gitlab.com/aquachain/aquachain  --branch master --pkg cmd/aquachain --targets='*/amd64' gitlab.com/aquachain/aquachain`

Then zip:

for i in aquachain-$VERS-*; do zip $i.zip $i; done

Then hash:

sha256sum * | grep -v zip